Acer's Aspire 1420P Tablet Turns Heads, Swivels Display
Acer president Scott Lin says his company has big plans for the tablet PC market, and today the company put on display its new Aspire 1420P tablet during a press event in China.
The sleek 11.6-inch tablet features a swiveling LED touchscreen with multitouch support, an Intel Celeron SU2300 processor (1.2GHz, 1MB L2 cache, 800MHz frontside bus), 2GB of DDR3 memory (expandable to 8GB), a 250GB hard drive, 802.11b/g/Draft-N, a multi-card reader, optional 3G support, and Windows 7.
According to the tablet's U.S. product page (yep, this one's headed for the States), the convertible display sports a built-in accelerometer that automatically rotates images so you can "use it as a photo frame, portable cinema, or the [as] the perfect presentation tool."
What the product page doesn't tell us is when the 1420P will be released and at what price

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kanehi
December 23, 2009 at 9:40pm
I'm in the market for a tablet right now since my HP tx1000z conked out on me. I've been looking at Lenovo and Fujitsu but it's rather expensive. A light unit with long battery life is fine with me. Acer has been in the business for a long time and the quality now is much improved. I hope Acer will release this model soon.
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kanehi
October 24, 2009 at 4:31am
then I'll buy it. HP's tx series is outdated and is bulky. This Acer is looks nicer than the HP tx.
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big_montana
October 23, 2009 at 11:15am
Thanks but no thanks. If I want a Tablet I will purchase a Lenovo Thinkpad X200. It has all of the above features, but with a Core 2 Duo low voltage processor, up to 500 GB HDD (or SSD drive), full size spill resistant KB, mobile broadband plus up to 9 hours on the extended batttery, 6 on the standad. Let's not forget the Thinkpad quality and reliabity, something that Acer can only dream about having.

















